Eckard, Illinois

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1929 USGS Manito quadrangle1:62500
• 1932 USGS Manito quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1961 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000
• 1982 USGS Topeka quadrangle1:24000
• 1985 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Lincoln quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Peoria quadrangle1:250000

Centennial History of Mason County, Including a Sketch of the Early History of Illinois, Its Physical Peculiarities, Soils, Climate, Production, Etc., published 1876 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Eckard between 2004 and 2019, burning about 12 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Buzzville
• Baldwin Beach
• Chautauqua Park
• Quiver Beach
• Topeka
• Bishop

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Eckard: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Mason County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eckard in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Mason County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 422656. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.